COCOONED CONNOISSEURMUDGEONS and other works by GARY LLOYD NOLAND

Pianist JIHYE CHANG performs AETERNUM VALE Op. 93 (2008) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. In memoriam DAVID FOSTER WALLACE. This was the world premiere performance on a Seventh Species concert in Portland, Oregon, June, 2013

AETERNUM VALE for piano Op. 93

THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT FLOYD from 24 INTERLUDES for piano Op. 71, No. 5 performed by the composer. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT FLOYD for piano Op. 71, No. 5

PERFESSOR XEROXBURGER'S RAVERY from 24 POSTLUDES for piano Op. 72, No. 7, performed by the composer. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

PERFESSOR XEROXBURGER'S RAVERY for piano Op. 72, No. 7

The PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs CAVEMANARCHISTIC BLARNEYFEST by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. Members of the ensemble are: ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, DARNOLD OLLY YANG, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, ARNOLD DAY LONGLY, and the composer himself. To read more about GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

CAVEMANARCHISTIC BLARNEYFEST

The PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs DEATH, TAXES & JUNK MAIL by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. Members of the ensemble are ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, ARNOLD DAY LONGLY, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, DARNOLD OLLY YANG and the composer himself. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at:
https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

DEATH, TAXES & JUNK MAIL

The PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs EMBLAZED MALAISE by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. Members of the ensemble are ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, ARNOLD DAY LONGLY, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, DARNOLD OLLY YANG and the composer himself. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

EMBLAZED MALAISE

The PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs BLACK DOG À GOGO by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. Members of the ensemble are ARNOLD DAY LONGLY, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, DARNOLD OLLY YANG, and the composer himself. To read more about GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

BLACK DOG À GOGO

Pianist Myrna Setiawan performs FUNERAL WALTZ Op. 91 by Gary Lloyd Noland (2008). In memoriam John Swackhamer. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Pianist Myrna Setiawan performs FUNERAL WALTZ Op. 91

The PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs UNREQUITED INDIFFÉRENCE by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. Members of the ensemble are ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, DARNOLD OLLY YANG, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, ARNOLD DAY LONGLY, and the composer himself. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

UNREQUITED INDIFFÉRENCE

The PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs THE MISVENTURES OF HERR TICKLEMANN: TROLL WITH THE MICROSCOPIC PENIS. Members of the ensemble are ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, DARNOLD OLLY YANG, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, ARNOLD DAY LONGLY, and the composer himself. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

THE MISVENTURES OF HERR TICKLEMANN: TROLL WITH THE MICROSCOPIC PENIS

The PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs COCOONED CONNOISSEURMUDGEONS by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. Members of the ensemble are ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, DARNOLD OLLY YANG, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, ARNOLD DAY LONGLY, and the composer himself. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

COCOONED CONNOISSEURMUDGEONS

A HO, HO, AND A COUPLE OF HUMS from 24 POSTLUDES FOR PIANO Op. 72, No. 12 performed by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

A HO, HO, AND A COUPLE OF HUMS

DOG DUO Op. 66 is scored for either viola & cello or clarinet & bassoon. This is an electronicized version. To read more about composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

DOG DUO Op. 66

Pianist Randall Hodgkinson performs ALLEMANDE from SIX AND A HALF PIANO PIECES by GARY LLOYD NOLAND

ALLEMANDE for piano Op. 8, No. 4

Pianist Randall Hodgkinson performs KIRCHNERISM Op. 8, No. 2 by Gary Lloyd Noland.

KIRCHNERISM for piano Op. 8, No. 2 performed by Randall Hodgkinson

MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF CAMILLE PAGLIA by Gary Lloyd Noland

MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF CAMILLE PAGLIA

Having attended a recital of musical portraits by Virgil Thomson in Boston back in the 1980s (with the composer present, whom I briefly met), I have decided to embark upon a similar pilgrimage. This is my fifth musical portrait. This one is of the French novelist, essayist, poet, actor, filmmaker, and singer MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ(born 1956 or 1958)—a delicately sculpted, multi-layered comprovisation for piano and other bells, whisltes, and accessories. I am planning to continue composing more musical portraits of artists, writers, and performers who emanate powerfully luminous auras in their work. I have several other people in mind for this project.

PORTRAIT OF FRENCH AUTHOR MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Op. 117, No. 5

GREMLIN GAMBADOS from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, No. 11 (newly revised version from Feb. 12th, 2021). To learn more about composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

GREMLIN GAMBADOS from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, No. 11

DISINCENTIVE from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, No. 10 (newly revised version—Feb. 14th, 2021)by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at:

SADISINCENTIVE from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, No. 10

Soprano Nancy Wood and pianist Paul Safar perform I DARE NOT ASK A KISS (Op. 7) by Gary Lloyd Noland. Poem is "To Electra" by Robert Herrick (1591-1674).  This song may be performed with either piano or harpsichord accompaniment. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

I DARE NOT ASK A KISS for soprano & piano (Op. 7)

Resides in Portland, Oregon. Grew up in Berkeley, CA. Born in Seattle.  PhD, Harvard. “Gary Noland is one of the great composers of the 21st century.”—JACK RUMMEL, KGNU 88.5 FM, Boulder CO, “...iconoclastic, stylistic potpourri standards of giddy humor, no holds barred soup to nuts and high spirits.”—ROBERT LEVIN, pianist, musicologist, composer, "...a fleet-fingered, ebullient performer ... bright, witty and engaging.”—CHRISTIAN CAREY, SPLENDID MAGAZINE, “...distinctive, inventive ... subversive ... You can hardly be indifferent to Noland’s music and so I would urge you to try it.” —ROGER BLACKBURN, MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL, “...set in a dizzying harmonic language that loops uncontrollably through a wide-ranging gamut of possible and impossible tonalities ... The general effect is like watching wet paintings of 19th Century musical memorabilia drip into frazzled 21st Century oblivion...” —ALLEN GIMBEL, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “Mr. Noland writes as a ‘time traveler’ in styles long abandoned by most composers as well as styles so new as to not have been imagined but by him. This he accomplishes naturally, convincingly, with originality and true passion. His command of all musical languages and his ability to traverse musical time is nothing less than remarkable. Listen!”—DONALD MARTINO, Pulitzer Prize winning composer, “...mind-bending spiraling of focus which is truly breathtaking ... spectacular...”—CHARLES AMIRKHANIAN, composer, sound poet & radio producer, “I'm amazed at your harmonic skill. Haven't seen or heard anything like it from any one else—except yours truly—certainly not from your generation. It falls somewhere between Strauss and Mahler. Especially like how you are able to slip in and out from the tonal to the atonal—or near atonal...”—GEORGE ROCHBERG, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist, “...court jester to the classical establishment...”—PAYTON MACDONALD, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “...florid and juicy...” —RICHARD BUELL, THE BOSTON GLOBE, “...an incredible aural web ... a great ostinato of American kitsch. Sul pont never sounded so good.”—RUSSELL STEINBERG, composer, conductor of the LOS ANGELES YOUTH ORCHESTRA, “...I am bowled over by the expertise of your music: you use certain elements from the 19th century and from jazz, etc., and just at the moment when I am about to say, OK, what else is new?, you do a number of things, such as speeding up, becoming wildly dissonant, modulating to a distant continent, stopping completely and throwing some kind of total surprise ... you seem to know exactly when to do what and how much. I don’t know anybody else who can do it!” —ANDREW IMBRIE, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist, “... remarkable stuff...”
—MAX MORATH, American ragtime pianist, composer, actor & author, “...a loony composer from Oregon...” —MAX SHEA, WMUA 91.1FM, Amherst, MA, “Gary Noland is one of those 21st Century composers seeking to forge a new aesthetic based on older models that do not traffic in serialism or minimalism ... Zany waltzes, ragtime riffs, chorales, toccatas, and much else romp and tear through these depictions of superheroes and villains from his ‘chamber novels’; other pieces spoof serial music ... to grand operas ... and Jewish guilt.” —JACK SULLIVAN, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “...Paranoid Ravel...”—ALEX DUNN, KZSU FM90.3, Stanford, CA, “...It’s a romantic romp, rhythmically robust yet melodically flirting with the nostalgia of cabaret, minus the sleazy diminution of spilled drinks and smelly ashtrays. Its elegance recalls Elgar, and the serious sides, a synthesis of those strange bedfellows Schubert and Ives. Composers hate it when their music reminds you of someone else’s, but writing within a tradition, Noland has incorporated divergent styles that, woven together, work. Cosmopolitan without snobbery, it’s intelligent, pleasurable and convincing.” —ROCKY LEPLIN, THE BERKELEY VOICE

COCOONED CONNOISSEURMUDGEONS and other works by GARY LLOYD NOLAND

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer